Okay I may be exploiting my age a little bit. But I find it very interesting events which happened the year I was born is now history.
I was searching for a quote I remembered from a long time ago when I was a very avid reader. I was thinking it was a quote by Mary Bethune. So I searched the internet in pursuit of the exact verbiage. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the exact quote I was looking for. The quote I was looking for was in regards teachers performance being based on the grades of the student. There are so many modern day appeals for merit based pay it will probably be hard to locate the quote I was looking for.
My search took me to looking it up under Google Ebooks because of course someone of known stature should definitely have some type of autobiography. Well to my surprise I discovered there are not even autobiographies but magazine articles on some of the later achievements and accolades by people since the year I was born.
One of the most impressive at a glance was the March 1963 Jet Magazine which covered an article on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. In the same year there was a picture of Nat King Cole on stage rehearsing with some other well know musical giants.
Wow was I impressed. It seems so surreal to me to be able to pull up a magazine article from the year I was born from a magazine which is still currently in print. I am very grateful the magazine is still in print because I have always liked the stories it has covered.
How wonderful to be able to look up history from the convenience of your computer and be able to view the resource real time.
Technology, you just have to love it! Thanks Jet and Google! I will be browsing some of the greats of my time right online for Black History month.
I was searching for a quote I remembered from a long time ago when I was a very avid reader. I was thinking it was a quote by Mary Bethune. So I searched the internet in pursuit of the exact verbiage. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the exact quote I was looking for. The quote I was looking for was in regards teachers performance being based on the grades of the student. There are so many modern day appeals for merit based pay it will probably be hard to locate the quote I was looking for.
My search took me to looking it up under Google Ebooks because of course someone of known stature should definitely have some type of autobiography. Well to my surprise I discovered there are not even autobiographies but magazine articles on some of the later achievements and accolades by people since the year I was born.
One of the most impressive at a glance was the March 1963 Jet Magazine which covered an article on the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. In the same year there was a picture of Nat King Cole on stage rehearsing with some other well know musical giants.
Wow was I impressed. It seems so surreal to me to be able to pull up a magazine article from the year I was born from a magazine which is still currently in print. I am very grateful the magazine is still in print because I have always liked the stories it has covered.
How wonderful to be able to look up history from the convenience of your computer and be able to view the resource real time.
Technology, you just have to love it! Thanks Jet and Google! I will be browsing some of the greats of my time right online for Black History month.
